Those who wish to avoid system should quit Verizon, AT&T, Comcast, or Time Warner service

After months of delays, a "six strikes" system designed to curb copyright infringement will go live in the United States, affecting customers on many of the nations' top internet service providers (ISPs). While avoiding the most draconian of punishments proposed in past plans -- severing offenders' internet connections -- the system will carry serious consequences including connection throttling and forced "education" from anti-piracy groups.

The simple solution for business people in that situation is to cancel their service with AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, or Time Warner and seek a local alternative.

Of course that approach could be difficult in some regions, and may become infeasible if more ISPs jump on the CCI bandwagon. For now, though, there are alternatives for many customers who want to avoid the system.

14 years is still a long time today. 14 years ago, i was 12 and a year away from my first "modern" PC, a pentium 3 600 mhz. Around that time the first kid in highschool got a nokia that could run 1 game, Snake. Monochrome ofcourse on a 2" screen.

Now my 4,7" smartphone with 1280x720 resolution carries a quadcore 1,5 ghz, and it's not even one of the top models anymore. Desktopwise people are running around with octacores, 32gb of ram and 4 connected graphics cards each measured in terraflops.

Who would be hurt by the making public of the patents on any of those machines 14 years ago? How could they possibly be relevant today, other then in ways their original creators will never think of?